Topic: Interesting site to share-whadya think?

Stumbled across this site featuring the theories of Dan Winter, loads of info on life force, physics, geometry, energy, etc., as well as unification of it all.  Some of it is a bit too technical for me to comprehend without further study but a lot of the stuff here resonates well with me and I'm wondering what others here think or if anybody knows of Dan Winter in general.

http://www.soulinvitation.com/indexdw.html

Thanks, Stephen

Re: Interesting site to share-whadya think?

Horrible design.  Hardly legible.  Poor information architecture, non-existent user interface, no use of CSS style, pointless tables, no compliance...

Oh, you mean the site content?  ^_-

I much prefer Victor S., Walter Russell and John Keely to Dan Winter when it comes to a partly esoteric approach to physics.  (yes, I'm using the term 'esoteric' quite liberally here -- to mean "including non-mathematical parts and sometimes general, all-encompassing terminology")

Re: Interesting site to share-whadya think?

Stephen M wrote:

Some of it is a bit too technical for me to comprehend without further study

If it resonates with you, then awesome! There's a lot of filtering I had to do to decipher anything meaningful from Dan Winter's material. I think the idea of the phi ratio in regards to fractal self-similarity, and how this applies to the various dimensions of reality, that seems valid. And waves/spirals involving phi, that's also important.

As for the site design, well there's a running joke that's funny because it's true, but you can spot insanity on the web by sites that consist of center-aligned multi-colored text randomly capitalized, italicized, bolded, and underlined. Without fail.

Some of Dan's material is just so convoluted at times. There's a lot that could be incoherence passing itself off as being incomprehensibly profound. I mean, if one cannot understand it, how can one be sure it says anything at all?

A couple weeks ago I came across an article that was formatted nicely, but in reading it I could tell the guy was delusional but trying very hard to come across as some bigshot scientist. Well, I searched the web and found the original article, as the one I had was a reposting on another site. The original article was - surprise - center aligned on white text with capitalized sentences here and there, bolded paragraphs elsewhere, etc...

Another example: after visiting soulinvitation.com check out this site: http://users.rcn.com/zap.dnai/ . I communicated with the author there back in 1997 and one of his 'disciples' too, wondering what his deal was. He threw around complicated terms, used convoluted language that seemed to include valid things here and there, and his students hoped that one day they could understand what this great genius was saying. Maybe he was just nuts. Certainly was an angry and unstable person from what I could tell and plagiarized like there was no tomorrow.

Much of Dan Winter's material is taken from the research of others, like Stan Tennen of the Meru foundation for example, the cymatics works of Hans Jenny, and pop-metaphysicians like Terrence McKenna. So if something resonates, it could be bits and pieces from the works of others with the incomprehensible parts coming from Dan. Who knows, I don't like bashing people but I have to give a little heads up in regards to the Winter material, to watch out for things that hint of profound knowledge but never deliver. What resonates, keep...what makes no sense, leave smile

Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.

Re: Interesting site to share-whadya think?

Thanks guys, I definitely noticed a manic feel to the site as well as lack of organization.

montalk wrote:

Some of Dan's material is just so convoluted at times. There's a lot that could be incoherence passing itself off as being incomprehensibly profound. I mean, if one cannot understand it, how can one be sure it says anything at all?

That's a very good point and good to know it's not just me, ha. I'm going to check the site out a bit further to see if I can discern more of his motivations as sometimes it's hard to tell if somebody is a bit loopy or perhaps they are on to something but have troubles expressing it.

Thanks, SM

Re: Interesting site to share-whadya think?

Stephen,
I met Dan about 15 years ago.  He's "unique".  Definitely passionate about his theories and beliefs, and has a good sized following.  I was interested, but simply couldn't comprehend.  Like many, I got bits and pieces and tried diligently to put them together, but was only able to sort of "get it".  There are some gems there, if you look, but why stress over it when the same info, in an easier format, is probably within keystrokes. 

I had a couple of good snippets from him filed somewhere.  If I can find them, I'll post here.  In the meantime - happy hunting.

Enlightenment happens!  Attachment to the ego-self leads one into delusion; but faith in one's Buddha nature leads one to enlightenment.

Re: Interesting site to share-whadya think?

ohmygod that site is all over the place!

"...i was taken by the hand, from the ocean to the sand..."
nitin sawhney - 'eastern eyes'